I've been collecting my writings from years gone by as I find them. Each time I move - now 5 times in the last 3 years - I find more scraps, loose sheets, etc. with my thoughts from various times in my life. I've decided to copy as many of them as I can here to try and keep from losing them again, and to share with the world. Please feel free to comment as thoughts occur to you. Either send them to trekker9er@yahoo.com or use the comment links here. Thanks, and Enjoy!

Saturday, August 02, 2003

 Levels of Friendship


I figured this system out many many years ago, and finally wrote it down sometime around 2000 I think.


Levels of Friendship

Descriptions of each level:
1) Someone you see most everyday during your normal routine to whom you smile, say "hi", or ask "how are you?" and who does the same or one of the others in return. You may or might not even know the person's name or anything about them beyond what you see each day.
2) Someone you've met, thought you may or may not remember the person's name, and whom you might interact with on occasion.
3) Someone you know and are friends with in only one environment (school, or work, or church, or a social group/club).
4) Someone you are friends with and consider and actually do things with beyond just in the environment you became friends with the person in.

Getting from level four to level five friendships with me is a threshold. A big threshold. A trust threshold. And depending on how much I believe, and later am shown, I can trust a person on specific things (which I have in my head and might write out at some point, though might not) determines which level a person falls into. Length of friendship also plays a part in which level a person falls into.
Posted by: trekker9er : 11:54 AM  

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